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Costco is going to carry the United Artists 90 film and 30 film sets (at $579.99 and $180.99, respectively). They are also going to carry the Ford at Fox set, unknown price, but it will be $60 off their price from Dec. 17-24.
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Costco has some discounts going on. Now through tomorrow (the 2nd), the Warner Bros 4-pach HD sets are $12 off, the Ultimate James Bond Collector's Set has a coupon for $50 off.
From Dec. 10-16th, they will have $20 off several A&E megasets: America at War, Best of Modern Marvels, Benny Hill, Romance Classics Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Plus $10 off Planet Earth.
From the 17th to the 24th, they will have $60 instant savings on Ford at Fox, Stargate the COmplete Series amd X-Files Complete Series. There will also be $10 off seasons of Rome, The Sopranos, Deadwood and Band of Brothers, $5 off sevrral Disney animated features, and $12 off Here's Johnny! Definitive Tonight Show Collection.
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Snorky, sorry, but I already mentioned the Deepdiscount.com box set sale (it is also at dvdplanet) a little ways down in this thread. I also mentioned about Kino having a 25% off sale about a page back.
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When Gene Kelly does his slide in Singin' in the Rain and come right up against Cyd Charisse's outstreched leg...the contest is over. She has it hands down.
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This one is only on for about two weeks, I think, but don't hold me to that.
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Well, this is the last thing I need, but DVDPlanet.com has an incredible 2 for 1 box set sale on MGM and Fox titles. deepdiscount has the same, so you can save on taxes.
If you can find ones of equal price, with their already discounted items you will only be paying prices like:
Billy Wilder Collection $42
Betty Grable Collection $21
Alice Faye $17.50
Hemingway Collection $21
that big Bond box set $84
Laurel & Hardy vol. 2 $12.50
MASH big box set $70
Mike Shayne Mysteries $10.50
Sergio Leone Anthology $31.50
the Chan and Moto sets for about $14 each
Shirley Temple Collections for about $10.50 each
and lots more good stuff.
Here are some discount codes you can use on dvdplanet:
NOVEMBER2007 $5 Off $60
PRENOV2007 $10 Off $125
Expire 11/30/2007
Here's the link to the DVDplanet sale:
http://www.dvdplanet.com/b1g1.cfm
And here's theone for deepdiscount.com:
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Check this out. Not 40% but 50% off. This brings the prices below anything DD and Planet had on VCI stuff.
Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in!
Michael Corleone had it right. This sale was too good to pass over. Especially since it seems like the 50% off is on top of any discounts they are already applying. For example, many of the serials are normally $19.99 but they have a 25% off sale, bringing it down to $14.99. I ordered some of them last night and used the new code and I got them for $7.50 each! And some of those were titles they had at $29.99, so that equals 75% off the $29.99 serials. I've already got it but now wpold be the best time for anyone to order the new special edition of A Christmas Carol. The regular price is $19.99 and they already have a sale in price marking it down to $14.99, so if the code works on it, you would get it for $7.50!
In addition to serials, I ordered Chu Chin Chow, Pippin, Somewhere in Dreamland, and Fractured Flickers.
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Another "up to 50% off" sale of boxed sets (about 400 of them they say -- make sure you click on all the category tabs) at Amazon:
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I have been working so hard on my schedule that I've felt guilty that I haven't yet responded to the work of movieman, fedya, sugarpuss, and lzcutter. So I decided to check in today and review them, and they are all GREAT. With one caveat...
SO MUCH OF WHAT I PLANNED FOR MINE IS IN THEIRS!!!
I was planning on doing Edward Arnold as my Star of the Month, but movieman has a tribute to Arnold.
I was planning a section called "Fool's Gold" but sugarpuss beat me to the Gold topic. And I was going to highlight The Shrike, a film I have wanted to see for some time, but sugarpuss got that, too!
Fedya's got an "80 Years Ago Today" feature. lol, I was working on some 1948 and 1938 tributes (60 and 70 years).
And lzcutter's got a tribute to RKO, something I was pencilling in.
Sigh, I definitely have committed the ultimate sin...sloth...I waited too long to get my schedule done. I can also now be one of the seven dwarfs...Grumpy.
However, never fear, I shall press on and get one in very soon.
Congratulations to all for their hard work.
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Wow, I spent WAY TOO MUCH on the various online and in-store discounts this week. I don't even want to know the total (so don't anybody else try to tell me, please). Some titles I wouldn't have normally bought (such as the TV shows), but some had prices so ridicuously low, I couldn't pass them up. Here's what I've bought/ordered in the last week or so:
The Garbo Signature Collection (got it used for $38)
Ox-Bow Incident
The Best of Everything
Orchestra Wives
The Rains Came
The Snake Pit
Anna Karenina
The Razor?s Edge
Desk Set
River?s Edge
2001: A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray)
The Shining (Blu-ray)
Eyes Wide Shut (Blu-ray)
The Lone Ranger ? The Legend Begins (contains the first serial plus Clayton Moore shows)
Huh?Hush, Sweet Charlotte
A Christmas Carol
4 Film Favorites: John Wayne
4 Film Favorites: Draculas
Superman the Movie (Blu-ray)
Las Vegas Seasons 1,2,3
Monk Seasons 1,2,3,4
Twin Peaks Goldset
Fire Walk With Me
Betty Grable Collection vol. 1
Alice Faye Collection
Hidden Hollywood
Once Upon a Time in the West
Adventures of Robin Hood HD-DVD
Casablanca HD-DVD
Forbidden Planet HD-DVD
Love is a Many Spendored Thing
Inner Sanctum Mysteries Collection
Best of TV Detectives
Sergio Leone Anthology
Best of Jack Benny
The 17 DVD Fox Film Noir group from Amazon
Laurel and Hardy Collection Vol. 1 (Fox)
Wonder Woman Season 1
Towering Inferno/Volcano double feature
Rising Sun/Sugar Hill double feature
Bedazzled/The Scout double feature
Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection
Batman (1966)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
NYPD Blue Seasons 1,2,3,4
Nip/Tuck Seasons 1,2,3
Criminal Minds Season 1
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Season 2
X-Men 3 (Blu-ray)
From Hell (Blu-ray)
Day After Tomorrow (Blu-ray)
The Terminator (Blu-ray)
From the Earth to the Moon (TV)
Rain Man
Far and Away
House Seasons 1,2
Sense and Sensibilty
Hairspray (Blu-ray)
and two or three others
Luckily, some of it was on trade credit. And I figure on some of the TV seasons that I got so low, I can watch them to catch up on them and sell to break even or better.
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I've found the Mill Creek 50 Movie Packs have many of the same Alpha titles and for a lot less. Whereas Alpha charges about $5 each, you can get 50 of the same titles for less than $20 withthe Mill Creek packages. And the PQ still can be as bad, lol.
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I tried the code but it said it had expired
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Wow, Web, I will so be all over this sale. I have two serials from them, Mandrake the Magician and Drums of Fu Manchu, and while the quality is far from perfect, I can see they do care. Mandrake looks good. Drums fair less well BUT it is a very rare serial from Republic and considered one of the best Republic ever made. And each has a well-illustrated booklet. I was looking at the catalogue on line and if I read it correctly, $14.98 seems to be the price right now on their serials but those are marked down from $19.99. If it 40% off $14.99, that would bring them down to $10 each and I will be buying a lot. (Sigh, will I even get out the door for a Black Friday sale??!!!) However, if they are $19.99 and then discounted, I will be more selective.
I do recommend the film, And Then There Were None, too. A genuine classic.
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Price drops on Amazon for Fox Film Noir bundle and the Fox Studio Classics set!!! The Film Noir bundle is down to $109 from about $139 (already a bargain, and now works out to about $6.40 each for its 17 DVDs) and the Studio Classics set at $199, down from about $240 (40 DVDs, so that is $5 each!!!).
What a great way to get some of the best of Fox! LOL, and who knows Fox may try to put these in a fancy binder and charge $500 for it, ala Ford at Fox or United Artists set. Hey, what if we took the discs and a $10-$20 book about Fox and made it into a gift set? Hmm, possibilities.
I went ahead and got the film noir bundle because I only have two of those and I can always resell my two. But I have almost all of the Studio Classics, so I passed on that but, boy, what a steal!!!
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There's a thread saying Happy Thanksgiving to others on the board, but I noticed there isn't one thanking the people at TCM for making every day a day of thanks for us!
Thank you for all the great movies you bring us each and every day of the year. Thank you for having Robert Osborne and Ben as hosts. Thank you for finding rare gems for the Lost & Found series. Thank you for the great tributes you do, including 31 Days of Oscar, Summer Under the Stars, etc. Thank for you for EVERYTHING that is Turner Classic Movies!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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It may slip through the cracks, but Kino has a 25%-30% off sale right now. I know with deepdiscount's sale and Dvdplanet's sale the discount are higher there, but there are are titles Kino sells that dvdplanet and DD don't carry. (For example, The Gaucho and The Iron Mask, two Doug Fairbanks silent films.) Here's a link:
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! And I think I now know why Thanksgiving dinner is served around 2 PM or 3 PM...it's so we can get to sleep early in order to get up for the 4 AM opening Black Friday sales. I expect people to be lining up around midnight. I intend to go to one - and figure I will only be able to choose one ocnsidering the madhouse - but haven't made up my mind yet. plus I am very broke from all the pre-sales that have been going on!!!
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So far, I have ordered from DVD Planet:
Ox-Bow Incident
Orchestra Wives
The Rains Came
The Snake Pit
Anna Karenina
The Razor?s Edge
Desk Set
River?s Edge
2001: A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray)
The Shining (Blu-ray)
Eyes Wide Shut (Blu-ray)
The Lone Ranger ? The Legend Begins (contains the first serial plus Clayton Moore shows)
From deepdiscount:
Huh?Hush, Sweet Charlotte
A Christmas Carol
4 Film Favorites: John Wayne
4 Film Favorites: Draculas
Superman the Movie (Blu-ray)
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I enjoyed the film quite a bit. I think Jackson showed his love for the original by affectionately having scenes that were in the original be scsenes within the film that the Jack Black character was making.
My only complaint is that the opening, while atmmospheric, should have been trimmed a bit, and the jungle scenes went on way too long. Otherwise, excellent.
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I've also been ordering a bit, but I'll list those in a separate post. What I wanted to let you know about is if you are in the greater Los Angeles area, go out to the Warner Bros. studio store off of Riverside Drive or Street near the studio. (You have to go in the store itself, no phone orders, because they call these prices studio employee discounts, even if you're not). The prices there are usually about 40% less than street. And I was in there today and discovered that there is an extra 20% for fall clearance or something.
Here's what I picked up:
Classic Comedy Teams Collection - their usual store price: $17.61 - today was $14.09
Broadway Melody - their usual store price: $10.83 - today was $8.66
Lucille Ball Film Collection - their usual store price: $30.58 - today was $24.46
Driving Miss Daisy - their usual store price: $6.57 - today was $5.26
The Iron Giant - their usual store price: $7.35 - today was $5.88
4 Film Favorites (Comedy) - their usual store price: $8.72 - today was $6.98
Million Dollar Baby (Blu-ray) - their usual store price: $17.15 - today was $13.72
Batman Begins (HD-DVD) - their usual store price: $17.15 - today was $13.72
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I was shocked to see the following there at the price because I paid about $40 for it at Ameoba:
The Jazz Singer Three-Disc Deluxe Edition Box Set - their usual price: $23.50 - today was $18.80 !!!!!!
I picked up that extra set because it can always make a good gift, or sell my other one. Even with the special DVDPlanet and Deepdiscount.com specials on right now, they can't match that!
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Good point. I had switched to TCM during that sequence and forgot about the trip on the train. I should have remembered. Dang, somehow deep down I knew when I typed it he wasn't in NY by that time. but it sure would have been a nice touch.
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Much has been made about the title "North by Northwest" not really being a direction, and how it is likely based on a Shakespearan quote from "Hamlet," "I am but mad north-north-west"...but tonight while watching the scene at the airport in "North by Northwest" where Leo G. Carroll tells Cary Grant about Eva Marie Saunt being their agent, I may have found a justification for the title (no, this isn't in any history of the film's making, just an amusing observance).
In the scene, an airline name, Northwest, can be seen in the background. And since a trip to South Dakota (Mt. Rushmore) from NYC would be in a very slight northerly direction, and since we never know which airline he and Carroll do get on, it could very well have been Northwest. So he would be going "North by Northwest." LOL! This may be the most outrageous example of a product endoresment in a film, getting it right in the title (no, probably "Boeing, Boeing" may be the most blatant).
And in the scene where Martin Landau drops the statue after being shot, the statue breaks into pieces on the ground, exposing the microfilm that was hidden within it. However, when comparing the size of the film to the size of the head of the statue, it looks to be more a section of a roll of regular 35mm movie film, not tiny microfiilm.
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As Kyle said, it is just for November, but I absolutely love every day. These series were a regular staple of movie going back in the Thirties and Forties. (The concept of sequel after sequel is not new tot he present day; just as maing movies from TV shows isn't new, because movies took radio series and made them into films, too.)
Personally, I love the B series of private detective type films that TCM is running. There is absolutely nowhere else you can find these. Most of these are not on DVD (or even VHS). They are a lot of fun and I would love to see more.
tristanrobin, if you get a subscription to TCM's Now Playing magazine, you will see that each month's programming has some special theme. Just like the different Guest Programmers each night in this month.
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LOL, people, take a step back and look at the other threads on this page. Web is just having fun because there is a thread in this forum entitled, "Why is TCM Showing Modern Movies???"
[b]TCM Programming Challenge #8[/b] - It's Sinful!
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
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movieman, patful, hamradio, and Kyle,
Thanks very much for your truly kind words about my schedule. I was afraid I was going to get stuck this time for ideas, but ended up with a few in reserve for next time. (After eight schedules, I am almost tapped out for brilliance, lol.)
Thank you again!
filmlover